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...Crónicas” follows a Spanish-language tabloid news team covering a serial killer in rural Ecuador. The crew, led by the vain and ambitious field reporter Manolo Bonilla (Leguizamo), includes his sensitive and conflicted producer Marisa (Watling) and their good-natured, stoner cameraman Ivan (José Maria Yazpik...
...Crónicas”’s indictment of the news media seems especially relevant in the present cultural and political climate. One has only to substitute Ecuador for Iraq, or “Monster of Babahoyo” for “Butcher of Baghdad,” to understand the very real danger presented by an unfair and unbalanced press...
...When I was five my family and I visited Quito. I was very surprised with how much of a difference there was between Ecuador and New Jersey. I was used to seeing building and skyscrapers, but over there, there were just small houses. I had already learned English and spoke it more than Spanish. I was already Americanized and I was used to being in my home and nowhere else. To me it seemed as if I was a stranger to the Spanish culture...
...come live in America. They believed that America would be a better place to raise children. My mother believed that if my sister and I were raised here, we would get better opportunities and have a chance at a better future. If I were thirteen and still living in Ecuador my life would probably be so much different than it is now. I wouldn't speak two languages, because I never would have learned English. I don't think I would be where I am now and I don't think I would have received the same educational value...
...Being a teenager in America is very different but then again similar to being a teenager in Ecuador. I think that being thirteen in America is very difficult. A thirteen year old now has to deal with many forms of peer pressure. The pressure to be liked, the pressure to get good grades and there is the pressure to be a good person and make the right choices. Most people say that thirteen is a tough age, because that's when your body starts to take on changes and the worst problem of all occurs-acne. Teenagers have to keep...